YOUR GUIDE TO EDINBURGH'S FESTIVALS
This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.
ED2013 3/5 Reviews ED2013 Theatre Reviews
Take Care (Écoute Theatre Company)
By Katharine Wootton | Published on Saturday 17 August 2013
In a delicate, eye-opening new work of verbatim theatre, ‘Take Care’ makes a damning exposé of the way society cares or indeed, fails to care for its elderly and vulnerable. Disturbingly real and all based on actual interviews conducted with a range of carers, the small cast appropriate the voices of figures across the caring system with breathless authenticity. Nevertheless in need of a few tweaks to stage-crafting and in making the work more visual, this production packs a punch with its intimacy and honesty. If you want a more subtle and thoughtful celebration of Britain’s caring system than the Olympics’ offering of prancing nurses on spinning beds, ‘Take Care’ will do just the job.
theSpace @ Jury’s Inn, until 10 Aug, 1.05pm.
tw rating 3/5 | [Katharine Wootton]
